Security Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 317 314
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Security Manager 80 113 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.50% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.53% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 71 165
10th Percentile £405 £475 £450
25th Percentile £500 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year - +2.68% +6.67%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £675
90th Percentile £711 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £625 £618 £550
% change year-on-year +1.21% +12.27% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.70 £30.75 -
Median hourly rate £31.80 £31.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - -
75th Percentile £32.90 £32.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.80 £47.75 -
% change year-on-year -33.40% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Security Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Security Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Manager in the UK excluding London

Security Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East 0 20 £613 +10.11% 18
South West -2 18 £525 -25.48% 7
Midlands +10 14 £600 +4.35% 16
West Midlands +11 12 £600 +4.35% 8
North of England +15 11 £500 -9.09% 12
East of England +1 11 £400 -33.33% 10
Scotland +46 6 £573 +4.09% 3
North West +15 6 £676 +20.18% 7
Yorkshire +12 5 £500 -9.09% 4
East Midlands +7 2 - - 8
Security Manager
UK

Security Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Security Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Security Manager in the job title.

1 48 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (28.75%) Project Management
3 21 (26.25%) Risk Management
4 18 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (20.00%) Agile
5 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
7 14 (17.50%) Finance
7 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
8 13 (16.25%) Information Security
8 13 (16.25%) Cloud Security
9 12 (15.00%) CISSP
9 12 (15.00%) PRINCE2
9 12 (15.00%) Business Case
10 11 (13.75%) CISM
10 11 (13.75%) Azure
11 10 (12.50%) Manufacturing
11 10 (12.50%) PMI Certification
11 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (11.25%) DV Cleared
13 8 (10.00%) Degree
13 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (10.00%) Project Delivery
13 8 (10.00%) Decision-Making
13 8 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
14 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
14 7 (8.75%) Contingency Planning
14 7 (8.75%) Security Architecture
14 7 (8.75%) Programme Management
14 7 (8.75%) SC Cleared

Security Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.75%) Azure
2 6 (7.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (5.00%) AWS
3 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.75%) Akamai
4 3 (3.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (3.75%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) Extranet
1 6 (7.50%) Network Security
2 4 (5.00%) Firewall
3 2 (2.50%) Intranet
3 2 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.50%) LAN
3 2 (2.50%) VPN
3 2 (2.50%) WAN
4 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.25%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.50%) Finance
3 10 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.50%) Retail
7 4 (5.00%) Military
7 4 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.75%) Law
8 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Publishing
9 2 (2.50%) Automotive
9 2 (2.50%) Banking
10 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.25%) Police
10 1 (1.25%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.25%) JWT
1 1 (1.25%) OLE
1 1 (1.25%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Security Posture
2 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.00%) PMI
3 3 (3.75%) CCTV
4 2 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (2.50%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.25%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.25%) Life Science
5 1 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.25%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (28.75%) Project Management
3 21 (26.25%) Risk Management
4 18 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (20.00%) Agile
6 13 (16.25%) Cloud Security
6 13 (16.25%) Information Security
7 12 (15.00%) Business Case
7 12 (15.00%) PRINCE2
8 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (10.00%) Decision-Making
9 8 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
9 8 (10.00%) Project Delivery
10 7 (8.75%) Contingency Planning
10 7 (8.75%) Programme Management
10 7 (8.75%) Security Architecture
11 6 (7.50%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (7.50%) Information Assurance
11 6 (7.50%) SIEM
11 6 (7.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.00%) CISSP
3 11 (13.75%) CISM
4 10 (12.50%) PMI Certification
5 9 (11.25%) DV Cleared
6 8 (10.00%) Degree
7 7 (8.75%) SC Cleared
8 6 (7.50%) PMP
9 5 (6.25%) CISA
9 5 (6.25%) Master's Degree
10 4 (5.00%) MBA
11 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
12 2 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (1.25%) CRISC
13 1 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (7.50%) NIST
2 2 (2.50%) GRC
2 2 (2.50%) NCSC
2 2 (2.50%) NIST 800
2 2 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) COBIT
3 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.25%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.25%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) Kibana
1 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.75%) Cisco
3 3 (3.75%) F5
4 2 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.25%) Google
5 1 (1.25%) Splunk
5 1 (1.25%) Zscaler